Campus Emergency Management Resources

FEMA Emergency Planning for Higher Education Training

Colleges and Universities are not immune to tragedies and catastrophic incidents, but with community building, planning, training and exercises our nations campuses can become resilient. The risks that academic campuses face encompass both natural and man-made disasters.

Through rigorous research and collaboration with state, local, and private-sector partners, the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) has determined that an effective step toward creating resilience is to develop all-hazard exercise-based training courses. The courses developed and delivered highlight the importance of comprehensive planning as well as the important relationships that need to be established during a response to emergencies involving institutions of higher education. Below are links to EMI’s current offerings

• L0363 Multi-Hazard Emergency Management for Higher Education
• G0367 Emergency Planning for Campus Executives
• IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100

DHS Campus Emergency Planning Resources

• FEMA Academia & Resilience Resources
  
• FEMA Campus CERT Starter Guide
  
• DHS Campus Resilience Resources
  
• DHS Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council
  
• The DHS First Responders Communities of Practice

Campus Emergency Management Communities of Interest

• IAEM-USA Universities & Colleges Caucus
• Disaster Resilient Universities (DRU) Network
• The Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center

Training & Education Synergy

• Synergy between Training and Education: Advancing the Dialogue and the Efforts Training and Education Synergy Focus Group, April 7-8, 2014
• Do 1 Thing: Ways to Contribute to Emergency Management Training and Education Synergy
• IAEM USA Training and Education Committee page

If you have a resource that you would like to share for campus safety, please contact us at FEMA-HiEd@fema.dhs.gov to see about adding it to this page.